October 2012

Photo Storage and Indexing Need Taxonomy

By |October 4th, 2012

A new cloud-based photo sharing service has been launched by Canon. Project 1709 enables users to store and access images regardless of where they have been saved. This works due to a special tagging and indexing function.

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Training is Key for a Successful Transition

By |October 3rd, 2012

Now that there is a firm deadline in place, it is time to start training to meet the October 2014 coding classification transition goal. Considering there will be five times the number of diagnostic codes, the training should be comprehensive and complete.

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Why Do We Index?

By |October 1st, 2012

We index, or “tag”, using the taxonomy to improve precision. In part, we are doing that by defining the scope of the term that we use. So, we have a term that represents a concept but that term might be used for several concepts. We are defining in which way we are using the term ‘mercury’ within this corpus of information. We define the scope of the term, and that improves the precision.

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The Key to Findability is Taxonomies

By |October 1st, 2012

Zenya has released multiple updates to their keyword platform, which results in improving clients’ control to leverage keyword data and eventually their marketing success. Their approach to keyword generation includes a database of more than 1.4 billion keywords, including 600 million categorized by searcher intent.

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Understanding the ICD-10 Risks

By |October 1st, 2012

The ICD-10 coding classification conversion deadline has been set, again. Now it is time for healthcare providers to determine their game plan. During this year’s AHIMA conference in Chicago on September 30 – October 3 vendors will be on hand to help.

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September 2012

EBSCO Made the Ranks

By |September 28th, 2012

EBSCO has been named to this year's InformationWeek 500. This annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology is a honorable place to land and they have done it twice.

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Visual Recognition Technology Developed

By |September 28th, 2012

Researchers at Brown and the Technical University of Berlin have produced a program uses semantic understanding to identify simple sketches of objects almost as well as humans. Police and other law enforcement agencies use a similar technology to identify mug shots, but this technology goes farther by identifying more cartoonish features.

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